Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> At the command line, this gives you a detailed warning message, but the >> GUI currently allows it without any fuss. >> >> Since the GUI is often used by people much less familiar with git, it >> seems reasonable to make the GUI more restrictive than the command line, >> not less. >> ... >> This patch helps me a lot. > > The patch seems to disable checkout unconditionally, but it at least needs > an "expert mode" switch to bypass the patch's logic, or (better yet) a > "training wheel" switch for you to set in repositories of the people you > manage. It will be more helpful if it checked out a new local branch that tracks the remote branch, instead of refusing what the user asked to do. It may need a new dialog that asks to confirm (and allows the user to change) the name of the new branch. -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html